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Denis Villeneuve's POLYTECHNIQUE Dominates Canada's Genie Awards

by Todd Brown, April 13, 2010 12:32 PM


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There's an awful lot that could be said about Canada's Genie's Awards - like how they're scarcely publicized and not even broadcast live - and very little of it good. Canada's film awards are kind of a mess but beyond that we'll leave it at simply acknowledging those who won.

The hardware was handed out last night and the big winner was Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique, which took a whopping nine awards. The true life story of a school massacre that shook the country to its core in 1989 and is still commemorated annually, this was sensitive material to say the least and handled incredibly well by one of Canada's brightest up and coming talents.

Other notable Twitch faves honored were Pedro Pires' Danse Macabre and Xavier Dolan's I Killed My Mother.

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